ZenfolioPress
by David Nusbaum · Media
The ZenfolioPress plugin allows users to easily incorporate their Zenfolio hosted photos, galleries and collections into their WordPress site.
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Health
D 45/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
100+
≈150 estimated
Momentum
+20%
low volume, under 1,000 downloads a month
Biggest opportunity: “gallery”, “photo” and “photo collection” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
45 health vs 62 average across 3,299 Media plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.9%
of downloads still active
At least 100 of 11.2K lifetime downloads are still running, in line with its category: the median Media plugin keeps 0.8%, across 2,323 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Media plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Long abandoned. No update in 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42, well behind 7.1.
Details
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Under-optimized
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 4232 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 4.1.42; the current branch is 7.1
5.0★ over 1 review, weighted for review count to 4.1★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 4232 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
33
Momentum
Mixed: one swing, the rest drifting
0.0
Velocity
places per keyword, 22d
0%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 22d
0.0
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| zenfolio your tag | #2 | #2 | 0 |
| gallery your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| photo your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| photo collection your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| photo gallery your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
6 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 1 listed. 5 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “gallery”, “photo” and “photo collection” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,491 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 89 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #13,300 to #16,400, alongside the other plugins at 100+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 1 Nov 2026.
Update activity
How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
0
releases in the last 12 months
11.6y ago
latest release · v0.1.6 · 3 Apr 2015
16
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 3.6 years ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.
Install history since 5 Apr 2015
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ Matt Knowles11.6y ago
I have a Zenfolio account for historic photos of our volunteer fire dept and I just redesigned our main web site, putting everything into WordPress. I wanted an easy way to display the photos that were in Zenfolio and first installed another gallery plugin that among other photo sites, could display photos and galleries from Zenfolio. But because it supported other sites, it had a lot of code and options I don’t need. When it recently stopped working (a quick update fixed it) I went looking for alternatives and came across this plugin. I like that ZenfolioPress is dedicated to only Zenfolio and isn’t trying to interface to a bunch of different services. It was super easy to implement, and I like the display of the galleries better than the other plugin. Fortunately I hadn’t created too many pages using the other plugin so it was easy to convert to this one.
Read on wp.org ↗
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
This plugin’s searches fall outside the topics measured so far. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
1 of 8 pass · checked 30 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "The ZenfolioPress plugin allows users to easily incorporate their Zenfolio hosted photos, galleries and col..."
- ! Has a FAQ Only 2 questions in the FAQ; 3 or more gives an assistant something to match.
- ! FAQ asks real questions 1 of 2 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("A question that someone might have").
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ! Headings and lists 1 heading and 1 list; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ! Enough to quote 306 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
- ! Tags match the text Only 2 of 5 tags appear in the text ("gallery", "photo collection", "photo gallery" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2023-04-13 200+ → 100+ down after 191 days in tier
- 2022-10-04 800+ → 200+ down
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).
- P Photo Galleria 700+ installs · 3.9★ · 3 shared tags D
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InPost Gallery 700+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags B -
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Firelight Lightbox 200K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A -
Photo Gallery by 10Web – Mobile-Friendly Image Gallery 100K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags B -
Envira Gallery – Image Photo Gallery, Albums, Video Gallery, Slideshows & More 100K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A
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